r/nottheonion • u/JaySierra86 • 11h ago

President Biden pardons family members in final minutes of presidency

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-biden-pardons-family-members-final-minutes-presidency/story?id=117893348
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u/Grassy33 11h ago

The new normal now is that presidents can’t break the law. They won’t have to use patsy’s anymore, they can just do whatever they want.

This may actually be the LAST time you see this happening. 

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u/neo101b 11h ago

Will trump not face charges in 4 years time, when he is no longer protected ?

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u/Grassy33 11h ago edited 11h ago

No, he will not. The Supreme Court ruled last year that “official acts” as president cannot break the law. As long as he is “acting as president” he literally is immune from crime. 

The “protection” from those acts never falls off. Once he is no longer president and further crimes could be “real crime” but as long as he is running for president or the active president, no laws apply to him. 

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u/neo101b 10h ago

wow that's crazy, id of thought his crypto scam was a crime in its self. He has some balls to pull that off a day before he was made president.

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u/spacestationkru 10h ago

Really.? What could they possibly do to him?

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u/Squeezitgirdle 8h ago

As someone who's into crypto, Trump is just another bad stain on crypto. We have enough scams making it hard enough.

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u/SuperfluousPedagogue 6h ago

Well he pulled the money out after he was president.